Looops vs UnlockHabit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Looops
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Looops is not just another habit tracker — it's a rhythm engine for your life. Visualize, track, and optimize every pattern that shapes your day: simple check-offs, deep focus sessions, and the numbers that matter to you. And it's completely free. Every feature. No subscription, no ads, no account required. THREE WAYS TO TRACK • Check-off Loops — perfect for daily habits like "Make Bed," "Take Vitamins," or "Call Mom." • Session Loops — built-in timers for "Reading," "Meditation," or "Deep Work," with pause and resume. • Numeric Loops — log any value: weight, gym reps, glasses of water, pages read, daily spend. Organize everything into colorful categories that fit your life, on schedules that fit your week — daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. ANALYTICS THAT ACTUALLY TEACH YOU SOMETHING • Consistency Heatmap — a full year of progress at a glance. • Trend Charts — watch your numeric loops climb (or fall) over time. • Momentum Velocity — know whether you're building or losing steam. • Temporal DNA — discover the hours of the day you actually perform best. • Habit Synergy — see which habits reinforce each other. • Streak Projections — how long until you hit your next milestone. BUILT FOR iOS, PROPERLY • Interactive Widgets — check off loops right from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. • Live Activities — your focus timer stays on the Lock Screen while you work. • Siri Shortcuts — start, finish, or check on your loops with your voice. • Apple Watch — close your loops from your wrist. • Full light and dark mode support. • Export everything to CSV whenever you like. PRIVACY FIRST Your data is yours. Everything lives on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics harvesting, no selling your data — ever. MADE BY ONE PERSON Looops is designed and built by a solo independent developer, not a corporation. Every feature is free because habit tracking shouldn't have a paywall between you and a better routine. Download Looops and close the loop on the life you're building.
UnlockHabit
Build positive routines and break bad habits with this offline-first tracker. Visualize your progress with heatmaps and streak counters, and stay motivated with daily reminders and customizable goals. All features are free with no ads or subscriptions.
- Daily check-ins with a single tap
- Streak tracking
- Year heatmap visualization
- Week, month, and year insights
- Daily reminders
- Customizable habits
- Data import & export
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unlockHabit is a fast, offline-first habit tracker that helps you build good habits, break bad ones, and keep your daily streak going — free, with no account, no ads, and no subscription. Track your habits, check in every day, and watch your progress build over weeks and months. Your Momentum Score turns all of it into a single number from 0 to 100 that moves every day, so you always know whether you're building or slipping — not just which boxes you ticked. YOUR MOMENTUM SCORE One number, updated daily, built from four things: how consistent you've been over 30 days, how strong your last week was, your best current streak, and how many of your habits you're actually keeping up. Tap it any time to see exactly how it was calculated — nothing is hidden. Share it as a card when you're proud of it. ACHIEVEMENTS 34 badges across six ladders: streaks, total check-ins, perfect weeks, momentum, repairs, and how many habits you're keeping going at once. They're calculated from what you've already logged rather than stored, so restoring a backup brings your badges back with it. WHY UNLOCKHABIT • Free — unlimited habits, daily check-ins, streaks, insights and reminders, with no subscription • Offline-first — works with no internet; your data lives on your device • Private — no account, no sign-up, no tracking, no ads • Fast & minimal — no clutter, no nonsense, just your habits FEATURES • Daily check-ins with a single tap • Momentum Score with a full breakdown of how it's calculated • Achievements — 34 badges earned automatically as your consistency builds • Shareable Momentum cards • Tracking paths — measure each habit the way that habit actually works • Streak tracking, streak freezes, and planned skip days • Year heatmap to visualize every day at a glance • Insights for week, month, and year with completion rates • Daily reminders so you never miss a check-in • Ready-made starter programs: Morning Warrior, Mindfulness Journey, Fitness Foundation • Custom habits with icons, colors, categories, and per-day goals • Multiple dashboard views: grid, compact, and list • Archive, restore, reorder, clone, and permanently delete habits — with undo • Light, dark, and system themes • Choose your week start day • Import & export your data as JSON — you own your data • Available in 12 languages TRACKING PATHS Not every habit should be measured the same way, so each one can follow its own principle. Beginner's mind (shoshin) is free: a brand-new habit gets 21 days with no streak, no percentage and no score — just a record that you showed up, so a first week can't feel like failure. Three more paths come with Pro: • Golden repair (kintsugi) — mend a missed day instead of hiding it. The repair stays visible in gold and your streak continues, because the mend is something you did. • Eighty percent (hara hachi bu) — complete at 80%, not 100%. Five days out of seven finishes the week. • Rising bar (kaizen) — start small and let the goal climb on its own, in steps too small to resist. Past days are always judged by the goal that applied then, so getting stronger never turns your history into failures. UNLOCKHABIT PRO — OPTIONAL, ONE TIME Everything above is free and stays free. If you want more, a single one-time purchase — not a subscription — unlocks the three Pro tracking paths, your full Momentum history over 30, 90 and 365 days, five extra colour theme packs with matching light and dark modes, two extra share card designs, and every feature added to Pro later. PERFECT FOR Building a morning routine, drinking more water, working out, meditation, reading, journaling, studying, quitting bad habits, and any daily or weekly goal you want to stay consistent with. Download unlockHabit and start your first streak today. Terms of Use: https://swatlabcodebot.github.io/unlock-habit-legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://swatlabcodebot.github.io/unlock-habit-legal/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Looops at none against UnlockHabit's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. UnlockHabit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Looops asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Looops | UnlockHabit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sizwe Maluleke | Swathi Shivaram |
In-app purchases
Looops
No in-app purchases
UnlockHabit
- Annual Pro1 Year trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$14.99









